Oct 26, 2016 15:55
7 yrs ago
English term
muriel poure
Not a translator
fly-wheel
FVA
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English to French
Tech/Engineering
Mechanics / Mech Engineering
this is a quote from Harvey Cushing, American neurologist. How should I translate fly-wheel in this sentence?
Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.
Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.
Proposed translations
(French)
| 4 +1 | élan |
Didier Fourcot
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| 4 | reserve of energy |
Daryo
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Proposed translations
+1
1 hr
élan
Pour surmonter un obstacle, il faut prendre de l'élan
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reserve of energy
the point of a fly-wheel is to have a high moment of inertia i.e. to store a lot of energy that will oppose the slowing down of the mechanism when there is a punctual increased resistance - or a sudden loss of input power
Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log
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Enthusiasm is your reserve of energy that will carry you through periods when there is an increased resistance to your ideas/efforts ...
Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log
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Enthusiasm is your reserve of energy that will carry you through periods when there is an increased resistance to your ideas/efforts ...
Discussion
The flywheel of an engine stores energy when the piston is pushed by the explosion of the air-fuel mixture, and returns this energy in the rest of the cycle, most importantly for the compression that is a hard point to go through.
So enthusiasm is the reserve of energy or the acquired impulse that will let you go through the hard parts of sawing a log with difficult knots inside
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel